I think your experience might be more common, but only because academia suffers from incompetence in management. Most chairs and deans have no actual skill or training in managing people…

Yes, we have annual evaluation reports. One odd feature: the eval schedule is calendar year, while the promotion calendar is academic year 🤷‍♀️ Schedule aside, I’ve found these to be useful in several ways…

Same here.

“Overwhelming evidence?” It’s almost as if they’ve read and seen nothing about the case since 1999…

Yup. See you there!

There’s a saying in Russian that translates to something like, “the less you know, the better you sleep.” It’s not wrong 🤷‍♀️

Dean of Vibes sounds like my kind of job…!

I never understood the need for any of this. They are adults and it’s their education.

Fascinating!!

My personal observation is that many Russians have been quite literally brainwashed by their own govt-controlled media for over a decade. I wonder whether that’s been captured in any recent studies.

I have multiple calendars (personal, academic, family, consulting) from different platforms and integrate them all in different colors into iCal. I don’t put things on my calendar unless it’s actually for me to attend or do.

Thank you so much!

I was just a tiny bit jealous when Miko mentioned it the other day. What a cool idea.